[1285] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Wayner op-ed in today's NYTimes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Gutmann)
Tue Jul 29 23:33:01 1997
From: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)
To: cme@cybercash.com
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
Reply-To: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz
X-Charge-To: pgut001
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 15:28:45 (NZST)
>criminals and pedophiles can eavesdrop also. My daughter is grown, now, but i
>she were still a pre-teen, I'd want her using PGP for all mail with friends
>(both for privacy and authentication).
That's another counterargument which I've been keeping in reserve (never had a
chance to use it yet). For:
"Cryptography protects pedophiles"
reply with:
"Lack of cryptography makes children accessible to pedophiles"
Since I've never tried it, I'm not sure how it'd go down. It's quite nice in
that because the media has done a lot of work to drum the "Internet =
pedophiles preying on children" message into the masses, it's quite hard to
refute.
Peter.
